From PhotoGroup chairman Barry Hunt:
"Now in its thirteenth year, the annual Online Photographic Exhibition provides an ideal showcase for participants to show off their best work. Year after year this non-competitive event does not disappoint. In fact we have come to expect high standards of creative excellence and relish the many visual delights resulting from each of the exhibition’s diverse categories. For this record-breaking 2017 edition our thanks go to Chris Smith, the exhibition’s editor. Also special thanks to our guest reviewer Stan McCartin, whose informative comments often give us valued insights into what makes a fine photograph."
From Online Exhibition editor Chris Smith:
"I am delighted to announce that 2017 is a bumper year for our online exhibition. No less than 369 photographs from across the UK, including many from the Chilterns, have been submitted by 33 authors. It is particularly pleasing that eleven new contributors are represented.
The standard remains very high, and a scroll through the albums provides a great deal of interest and pleasure.
Well done everyone!”
Click here to view Stan McCartin's comments on the exhibition.

Guy died on 27 January 2013, aged 87. He was involved with the Chiltern Society’s PhotoGroup from its earliest days, helping to establish it when he took on the job of secretary in 1991. He guided its development with John Wellsman and Don Brooks and was chairman from 2003 until he retired from the position in 2012. During those years the Group’s archive grew from an initial collection of 200 to more than 5000 photographs of the Chilterns, a key resource for the Society.

Born in North Harrow, Guy attended the Harrow County School for Boys and went on to study physics at Cambridge and Birkbeck College. At Birkbeck he joined the climbing club where he met his future wife, Betty. During his working life he was in the computer industry until the 1970s when he changed course and taught music, an abiding interest since his student days.

One of Guy’s lasting legacies was to establish and help maintain the Chiltern Society PhotoGroup library. Donated collections, showing aspects of Chilterns life during the past 50 years or so, formed an historic base for the library. In recent years it grew considerably, benefiting from the many hundreds of photographs taken by members following photoshoots in specific locations, or from individual projects. Today the archive covers around 175 locations and, backed by an easily accessible website, is recognised as the most comprehensive published pictorial record of the Chilterns. Guy contributed more than 300 photographs to the library; click here to see them.

Guy was always keen to promote PhotoGroup members’ work and he took the lead in arranging exhibitions of their photographs, originally displays of prints around the Chilterns, and later online. His initiatives included publishing a small magazine for members and the Puzzle Picture feature in Chiltern News. Guy recognised the importance of providing a social forum for members: winter indoor meetings and summer pub lunches on outings became increasingly popular.

Guy’s involvement with the Chiltern Society’s PhotoGroup, its Planning Group and the Executive Council will be long remembered.

The photographs of Guy’s funeral were taken by Terry Cherrill at the Chiltern Woodland Burial Site near Beaconsfield. A number of Society members attended including those in the first group photo.

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